Ok, as per Averett's last comment in Book Club, here it is, The official Virgin Suicides thread. If you're finished or even in the middle of reading it still, feel free to post away your thoughts and comments on the book.
I've finished it, and although it's probably not something i would've ordinarily grabbed off the bookshelf, i found myself unable to put it down. It has a certain way about it that i found drawn to and intrigued by. Perhaps the crazy narration is what did it for me. I'm very glad this was recommended because i love the fact that i got my lazy ass reading again and actually thinking about things other than work or emotional crap.
I think my favourite part about the book after reanalyzing it at the end, was the boys who told the story and the manner in which they described things in very real detail. Some of the little comments just cracked me up. I had a love/hate relationship with the details in which they described things that seemed very insignificant at the time, (ie the way the house smelled, or looked or anything like that). I thought it was stupid waste of good book space at first, but then i realized that describing things in detail was the essence of this book. It put YOU the reader there, in the narrator's place to give you a more vivid idea of what they were going through, (both the guys and the Lisbon girls).
I'll gab more later, just interested in seeing where everyone else is. Thanks
